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When body modification becomes psychological dependency

I've been wearing shapewear every day for two years and last week I went out without it and felt completely naked and wrong, like my real body isn't acceptable anymore even to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

She's recognizing how daily body modification has disconnected her from accepting her unaltered form, questioning where enhancement ends and self-rejection begins.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body as identity — physical self-concept?”

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